Disgraced doctor found guilty of 'gross negligence manslaughter' allowed to practice in Germany

The disgraced German doctor who killed a patient on his first out-of-hours
shift in Britain has been allowed to continue practising in Germany despite
an ongoing inquiry into whether he has ever passed a medical exam.

Dr Daniel Ubani was yesterday cleared to work in GermanyPhoto: THE AFRICAN COURIER

Daniel Ubani gave David Gray, 70, a fatal dose of the painkiller diamorphine in 2008 and was struck off by the General Medical Council in June this year after being found guilty of "gross negligence manslaughter".

Mr Gray's two sons have campaigned to have him banned from practising in his own country amid concerns that neither the university where Ubani, 68, claims to have studied nor the state examination office has a record of him ever having passed the state medical examination.

But yesterday he was cleared to work in Germany after the Arnsberg Government ruled he was not a danger to the public.

Dr Stuart Gray, Mr Gray's elder son, said: "I can't comprehend it. It doesn't make any sense. He's a danger to the public if they allow him to carry on practising. Three years on they still can't tell us whether he is a qualified doctor or not. It is not good enough.

"We have a right to know whether our father was killed by an incompetent doctor or whether he was murdered by a bogus doctor."

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A statement from the Arnsberg Government confirmed that an investigation into Ubani's training was ongoing.

They said: “As far as the doubts from your side about whether or not the doctor has ever sat a state exam are concerned, I can currently only inform you, that the investigation into this has not yet been concluded.”

Despite this Ubani passed a second fitness to practice hearing in Germany recently.

Whilst working as an NHS locum Nigerian-born Ubani gave Mr Gray, a kidney patient from Manea, Cambridgeshire, ten times the prescribed dosage of diamorphine and his patient was dead within minutes.

He was the subject of a European Arrest Warrant issued by the UK for manslaughter but following a deal with German prosecutors he was fined £4,000 pounds and given a nine month suspended jail sentence.

Volker Milk, head of health in the German town of Arnsberg said: "We didn’t decide that he is a good doctor, but we decided that he isn’t a danger for the public and therefore can continue working in Germany.”

Rory Gray, Mr Gray's other son, said: "They have chosen to take a risk with lives of the innocent German population.

"I don’t understand, I don’t see how it is possible considering he worked for one afternoon in Britain and he left a trail of destruction.

"This country needs to know whether bogus doctors are being registered in the UK without the authorities even knowing if they have sat a medical exam in their lives."

Ubani, a plastic surgery specialist, currently runs a clinic in the town of Witten, where he lives.

However, in recent days the website for the cosmetic surgery clinic has been taken down.

The cosmetic surgery sign outside his practice has also been removed, and sections of his name board relating to cosmetic surgery have been covered over.